- BJ1/1/1.
- File
- 1875-1892.
Minutes of meetings of the directors and of Annual General Meetings.
Minutes of meetings of the directors and of Annual General Meetings.
Minutes of directors, shareholders and creditors' meetings. The Company was wound up voluntarily, 21 June 1918, with Richard Davies acting as liquidator.
Ministry of Munitions, post-war government housing scheme,
Papers relating to the government scheme to increase and improve British housing stock. The particular view of Davies Bros. was that foreign materials were of an inferior quality.
'Anerchiad ymadawol y Llywydd yng Nghymdeithasfa Y Tabernacl, Môn', 9 April 1924, and list of venues for meetings for the next twenty years, 1925-1944.
Memorandum of facts relative to the slate industry of North Wales,
Document intended for submission to Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, concerning the North Wales slate industry. Comprises a privately circulated version (February) and a revised final proof (April) of the submitted document.
Agreement between Alfred Pritchard, Rosebush, Clynderwen co. Pemb., quarry proprietor and Richard Davies of Davies Brothers of Porthmadog, co. Caern, slate merchants and agents, for the sale and purchase of the whole produce of the Gilfach Green Slate Quarry.
Memorandum and draft (Gilfach quarry and Gilfach Ddofn Farm),
Memorandum and Articles of Association,
Inserted is a copy of the notice of Extraordinary General Meeting, 1 August 1912, to confirm the winding up of the Company and appointment of liquidator.
Memorandum and articles of association,
Includes incomplete draft copy.
Magistrates inspection of licensed houses,
Letters, notebook and reports by Jonathan Davies, and Owen J. Owens, 1933, on the licensed houses in the Eifionydd division of Caernarfonshire.
Papers connected to his position as magistrate at the Caernarfon Quarter Sessions.
Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Caernarvonshire)
Maen Offeren Slate Quarry Company Limited,
Annual reports of the Maen Offeren Quarry Company, 1906-1957.
Maen Offeren Slate Quarry Company (Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales)
Letters sent to Jonathan Davies, mainly relating to political and religious matters, 1875-1934, and letters from Henry Jones, Lightning Creek, 1924-1936.
Letters and circulars to Jonathan Davies relating to cultural, political, and religious matters, including Golan CM Chapel, near Pencaenewydd, the accounts of the North and South Wales Newspaper Co., Ltd, UCNW, Bangor, Permanent Buildings Fund, and the Cape Town Eisteddfod. Includes a small number of copy letters sent by Jonathan Davies.
Copy lease, 1 January 1872, for 72 years by John Ralph Ormsby Gore, Brogyntyn, to James Clarke, Newton Heath, Manchester, at a yearly rent of £50, of a portion of an inclined plane tramway or railway situated at Tanygrysiau in p. Ffestiniog, co. Merioneth, from the Wrysgan Slate Quarries to the Ffestiniog Railway, with a copy lease by James Clarke, Newton Heath, Manchester, of a wayleave over a the same at Tanygrysiau, p. Ffestiniog, at a rent of £25 per annum, 1874.
Lease of the Whitland Abbey or Gilfach Green Slate vein,
Draft lease for 21 years, of land to work the slate vein in and under Gilfach Dofn, by William James of Gilfach Dofn, p. Llandissilio, co. Carm., to Alfred Pritchard, Rosebush, p. Maenclochog co. Pemb., slate merchant. Includes map.
Lease for 90 years of part of Tanygrisau Farm, p. Ffestiniog, Merioneth, on which Wrysgan slate quarry is located, by Ellis and Mary Humphrys to Mr Thomas William Wilkinson.
Jonathan Davies (Porthmadog) Papers,
Business papers of Jonathan Davies, 1859-1933; papers of Davies Brothers slate merchants, Porthmadog, 1872-1947; personal papers of Jonathan Davies, 1875-1936; and papers relating to friends and family members, [c.1853]-1957. The archive contains a wealth of statistical information about the slate industry in Caernarfonshire, Merioneth and Pembrokeshire and the development of Porthmadog as a slate port.
Davies, Jonathan, 1857-1933.
Papers of Ithel Davies, son of Jonathan Davies, including some correspondence, 1934, and items relating to social engagements, 1937, 1953, 1955.